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Meanings of floating point in English

Russian
плавающая точка
Portuguese
método do ponto flutuante
Spanish
comas flotantes
Catalan
coma flotant
Wikidata

Computer format for representing real numbers.

        плавающая точка
        Synonyms
        Examples for "float"
        Examples for "float"
        1
        They didn't float easily and had a great fear of deep water.
        The Clan of the Cave Bear
        2
        It hopes to float them on the London Stock Exchange this year.
        Reuters
        3
        Curro has seen its share price rise seven-fold since its 2011 float.
        Reuters
        4
        They could simply float more shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
        News.com.au
        5
        In a managed float, you need reserves to intervene in the market.
        Reuters
        Usage of floating point in English
        1
        This switch gives the critical response time of name server in seconds, specified as a floating point.
        Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition
        2
        New support also is featured for floating point and crytopgrahic features, offering better performance and security, Novell said.
        Reuters
        3
        This switch sets the critical response time of the name server in seconds ( floating point decimal).
        Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition
        4
        With Quake it was floating point required, which was probably the more problematic of the steps that we made.
        Wired
        5
        The light in the jar began to grow again, a single floating point of perfect whiteness, swelling like a balloon.
        Stories: all-new tales
        6
        This switch sets the warning limit for the response time of the name server in seconds ( floating point decimal).
        Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition
        7
        This switch specifies the warning limit for the response time of the name server in seconds (specified as a floating point).
        Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition
        8
        In his attempt to answer the question: what does one do with 80 simple floating point cores, Bautista pulls out many of Intel's standard responses.
        Wired
        9
        The new machine, created for the US Energy Department, performs 1.06 teraflops, or 1.06 trillion floating point operations per second.
        The Irish Times
        10
        Intel also announced its "Knights Corner" co-processor, an x86-compatible floating -point processor capable of 1 teraflop double precision floating point performance.
        Wired